Learning Skills Program is a gently insistent overview of one current approach to Particular Algebra. It lightly drifts from categorized levels of abstractions, it observes mathematical operators and it intuits concrete solutions.

Performed with three people and a recorded soundtrack, the structure of LSP is dictated primarily by a junior high school-level lesson on the quadratic formula. Taken as a potential model for universal problem-solving, the lesson begins with a quadratic equation whose variables have been replaced with images rather than numbers. The seemingly inexorable progress towards an answer is interrupted three times by a structured, but completely improvised interaction with an audience member. The process highlights both the delight and anxiety produced by internal and associative logic.

Learning Skills Program was performed at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in May, 2007, as part of the Experimental Text Festival. Created with design input from Julia Benedict and Natalia Zubko, who also performed; directing assistance from Katrina Bugaj; and math advice from Harvard PhD candidate James Burns.